Guzman, Lila

Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the painter who used his murals to teach about Mexico's history and heroes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2006

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB RIVERA GUZ

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Summary: "Increase your acceleration, maximum speed, and endurance! Speed for Sports Performance provides the tools to build a program for your specific needs, sports, and goals"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.336 SPE

Summary: Venturing into the wilds of China, it captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2017

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY E-TV BOR

Summary: Thousands of prehistoric footprints left by Ice Age humans and animals stretch for miles across the blinding white surfaces of New Mexico's White Sands National Park. The phenomenal collection of prints preserves a unique series of snapshots of life and behavior, capturing moments when humans crossed paths with extinct Ice Age beasts, including enormous ground sloths and mammoths.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ICE

Summary: This documentary examines why hundreds of American POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars were abandoned and why our government doesn't demand their repatriation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bill Dumas Productions 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIS

Summary: Examines the highest levels of research and evidence behind the safest known, therapeutically active medicine humanity has: cannabis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CBD

Heiman, Lee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HEI

Summary: "Bring your strongest effort to the field, court, or mat. Strength for Sports Performance provides the tools to build a program for your needs, your sport, and your goals"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.07 STR

Summary: Helps athletes identify areas of improvement and establish a baseline for his/her flexibility regimen. Demonstrates the best science-based exercise techniques to avoid injury and optimize muscle function on the court, field, course, track, mat, or in the water.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.07 FLE

Summary: Through a series of self-assessments, one will identify areas of improvement and establish a baseline for a training regimen. Then learn the exercises that are best for enhancing power in sport-specific movements starting with base-building exercises for developing basic strength and postural control, and advancing to a complex power program that combines resistance training and plyometrics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.07 POW

Gutman, Bill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1988

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC Gutma

Summary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIG

Summary: The true story of the legendary Z100 New York radio station following the colorful characters that started the station in the early '80s, and how they used unconventional and outlandish methods to go from New York City's worst-rated radio station to number one.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOR

Summary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT

Summary: Gilbert Gottfried rose to fame in the 1980s thanks to his brash stand-up act and personality. Now, after decades of flying solo in both his work and in his personal life, Gilbert has shockingly reinvented himself as a family man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GIL

Summary: John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements were monumental. John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature creates a meaningful portrait of Art and Science in the first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOH

Summary: NOVA's Lord of the Ants profiles soft-spoken Southerner E.O. Wilson, renowned for his scientific study of ants that led to his 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, where he put forth the notion that evolutionary principles could explain social behavior throughout the animal kingdom, including in humans. Though sociobiology was a controversial new discipline at the time, today experimental...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LOR

Summary: A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROG

Summary: Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLA

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLA

Summary: The Boston-born 'Low Rock' band Morphine blazed like a comet across the international music scene in the 1990s, rising from local small clubs to indie and major label record deals, high and wide critical acclaim, and packed shows until its singer, songwriter and inventive two-string bassist Mark Sandman died of a heart attack onstage at an Italian music festival on July 3, 1999 at age 46.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JOU

Summary: A look at the life and career of professional wrestler André Roussimoff, who gained notoriety in the 1980s as Andre the Giant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AND

Summary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUF